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First look: Nvidia is working with Japan's newly formed Noetra consortium to build a 140-megawatt AI factory that will serve as the compute backbone for the government's FRONTia program, which focuses on robotics, industrial automation, and digital twins. The facility will run on Nvidia's DSX data center platform and use Vera Rubin NVL72 racks, each combining 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs.
In total, the project calls for 27,500 Rubin GPUs and 13,750 Vera CPUs connected through Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. The system is designed to handle the training of trillion-parameter models as capacity ramps up.
Nvidia is positioning the Rubin AI factory as a full-stack platform encompassing chips, networking, systems, and software for training and deploying open multimodal foundation models. These models are designed to operate with robots and physical systems, rather than just processing text and images. The plan is to make pretrained weights widely available to developers and companies in Japan so they can fine-tune the models for their own robotics, logistics, and industrial applications.
